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Professor of Slavic/Eastern Languages and EnglishB.A., Brown University, 1989 Lyons Hall 201 B Phone: 617-552-3911 |
Academic Profile
- Professor of Russian and English
- Co-director, Jewish Studies Program
- Specializes in Russian, Jewish, and Anglo-American literature, comparative literature, translation studies, and creative writing.
Courses
- EN175 - Jewish Writers in Russia & America
- EN227 - Classics/Russian Literature-English
- EN303 - Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
- EN675 - The Art and Craft of Literary Translation
- EN775 - Nabokov
Additional Professional Information
Maxim D. Shrayer's English-language translations, prose, and poetry have appeared in AGNI, Commentary, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, Salmagundi, Southwest Review and other magazines. He is the author of 3 collections of Russian verse: Tabun nad lugom (Herd above the Meadow, 1990), Amerikanskii Romans (Amerikan romance, 1994), and N'iukheivenskie sonety (New Haven Sonnets, 1998).
Publications (selected)
- Yom Kippur in Amsterdam (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, Library of Modern Jewish Literature, October 2009)
- Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2007). forthcoming
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An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two centuries of a Dual, 1801-2001, 2 vols. (Armonk, New York and London, M E Sharpe, 2007).
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David Shrayer-Petrov, Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories, by David Shrayer-Petrov, edited and cotranslated by Maxim D. Shrayer (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006).
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Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America, by David Shrayer-Petrov, edited and cotranslated by Maxim D. Shrayer (Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 2003).
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Russian Poet/Soviet Jew: The Legacy of Eduard Bagritskii (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
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Nabokov: Themes and Variations (St. Petersburg; Academic Project, 2000).
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The World of Nabokov's Stories (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1999).
